Connecting Your School Garden to Curricula Demands · the vegetables, the vegetables, The farmer...

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Connecting Your School Garden to Curricula Demands

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Connecting Your School Garden to

Curricula Demands

Seed PacketName Tags

Literacy

LiteracyHealthful LivingMeasurement

Make Soup for Lunch

Sorting: Fruits and Vegetables

Science – classifyingHealthful Living

Source: Utah Ag in the ClassroomScience – classifyingHealthful Living

The Farmer Grows a Rainbow:

Main Course

Science – classifyingHealthful Living

The farmer grows a rainbow, a rainbow, a rainbow,The farmer grows a rainbowFor me to eat each day!A bright and healthy rainbow, a rainbow, a rainbow,A bright and healthy rainbowTo fuel my work and play!

The farmer grows the grassy grains, the grassy grains, the grassy grains,The farmer grows the grassy grains To give me energy!

The farmer grows the vegetables, the vegetables, the vegetables,The farmer grows the vegetablesWith vitamins, you see!

The farmer grows the fresh fruits, the fresh fruits, the fresh fruits,The farmer grows the fresh fruitsTo keep away disease!The farmer cares for dairy cows, for dairy cows, for dairy cows,The farmer cares for dairy cowsTo give me milk and cheese!

The farmer raises beef cows, and swine for pork, and poultry,The farmer raises catfishFor protein so I’ll grow.

I want to thank the farmer, the farmer, the farmer,I want to thank the farmer For growing my rainbow!

Gena ByrdNC Ag in the

Classroom Ambassador

Science – Plants, measurement

Literacy – Literary genre

“Roots, Stems, Leaves”

The Banana Slug String Band

Science – plant partsPhysical EducationMusicLiteracy – literary genre

Up, Down, and

AroundBy

KatherineAyersLiteracy – directional words;

following directionsPhysical Education

Garden Obstacle Course

Math - sequencingHealthful Living

Measurement Opportunity

Measurement

Tops and Bottoms

Science – plantsLiteracy – literary genrePhysical Education

….and so on…

If the plant is one we generally eat the top – hands up

If the plant is one we generally eat the “middle” – stand up straight; hands on hips

If the plant is one we generally eat the “bottom of – touch toes

Beets

Asparagus

Celery

Garden Peas

R

A

D

I

S

H

Living or Non-Living?

Science – plants, scientific method

Seven (7) Days Later

Photosynthesis Promenade

Science – plantsMusicPhysical Education

PlantParts

Garden Glove

Science – life cycles, seasonsLiteracyMusic – choral reading, reciting

More…

Science – soils; soil samples; soil nutrients; soil composition

Physical Education

Graphing

Citizenship

Attributes

Writing

Research Skill Development

Oral Presentations

Science - Plant Life Cycles

Composition

Questions? Comments?

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Make your school garden partof your curriculum – not just

an extracurricular activity.